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Atmos Energy and its natural gas-powered fuel cell

Atmos Energy has announced that it has installed a 460-kilowatt natural gas powered-fuel cell at its corporate data center, located in Dallas, Texas. According to the company, the fuel cell will be powered by methane-derived natural gas, which will be captured at landfills and livestock farms,...

May 20, 2022

Texas

The bitcoin crackdown and the need for the industry to go green

According to reports, the State of New York is seeking to implement a ban on new bitcoin mining operations in order to decrease its carbon footprint. The proposed bill would, if passed, place a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication method...

May 19, 2022

United States

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

iM Critical Starts Work on its Pittsburgh Modular Edge Campus

iM Critical has begun constructing a modular Edge data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The data center campus will have three buildings when fully built out. It will also include EV charging stations and on-site solar power. iM Critical says the data center will support more than...

May 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pittsburgh

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those fa...

May 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

60 Hudson Street

AboutBit: Another cryptomine to be built at a fossil fuel plant

AboutBit, a blockchain firm founded in 2020, which has been called an 'earth-friendly' crypto-mining company, has announced that it's planning to build a 115MW cryptomine data center in Merom, Indiana, adjacent to the Merom Generating Station in Sullivan County. The firm has purchased 115MW of...

May 13, 2022

United States

Element Critical Expands Its Houston One Facility

Element Critical has announced that it has expanded its Houston One data center. The expansion comes one year after it acquired the facility. The expansion sees the company add two new data halls to the data center building located at 22000 Franz Rd in Katy. The expansion also saw Element C...

May 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Element Critical Houston One

1547 CRS Expands Its Orangeburg Facility in New York

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has announced the expansion of its data center located in Orangeburg, New York. The expansion sees 1547 add a new data hall to the facility, making available 2MW of capacity and an extra 16,800 square feet of white space. Before the expansion...

May 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

1547 1 Ramland

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a newly-pr...

May 11, 2022

Northern Virginia

Angola Cables' Monet Subsee Cable Expands To Flexential's Fort Lauderdale data center

Angola Cables has announced that its Monet subsea cable will be landing in Flexential’s Fort Lauderdale facility in Florida. The 6-fibre-pair/64Tbps+ Monet Cable runs 10556km from Boca Raton, Florida, to Santos and Fortaleza, Brazil. Google, Angola Cables (Angola), Algar Telecom (Brazil), a...

May 11, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential Fort Lauderdale

DC BLOX to Build New Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach, SC

ATLANTA – May 10, 2022 –DC BLOX, a leading provider of secure, reliable, connected data centers across the Southeast, announces it is planning to build a new Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The new CLS will anchor subsea cable systems connecting North America’s So...

May 10, 2022

Eric Bell

DC BLOX Myrtle Beach

Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

Standard Power has announced that it is developing a massive data center in Pennsylvania. The blockchain company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Energy Harbor Corp to develop a massive carbon-free facility at Energy Harbor’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant. Per the agreement, th...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Nasdaq Breaks Ground on Expansion at Equinix NY11 Data Center

Nasdaq Inc. has started expanding its data center presence at Equinix’s NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. Nasdaq first announced last December that it was expanding its presence at the site to support its cloud infrastructure build-out. Equinix announced in a LinkedIn post that it w...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Carteret NY11

Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility

Stonerock Capital Partners and Triple Double have completed the acquisition of two properties in downtown Miami. The properties are located at 200 SE 1st Street and 44 W. Flagler Street. They paid $56.7 million for both properties. The 200 SE 1st property is a 12-story, 13,200 square meter ...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

H5 To Expand Its Cleveland Data Center

H5 is looking to expand its Cleveland facility in Ohio. The data center company filed with the Cleveland planning commission to expand its data center located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue. It also filed for a Façade change at the facility. Although the application didn’t reveal specifics of the ...

May 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Vision Net Completes The Acquisition of iConnect Montana

Vision Net has announced the acquisition of iConnect Montana. The telecommunications solution provider revealed earlier in the week that it closed the transaction for an undisclosed fee. Both companies will now operate under the Vision Net brand and name. iConnect was founded in 1999 by Nor...

May 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

O&G Industries To Develop a 32MW Facility in Beacon Falls, Connecticut

O&G Industries has announced that it plans to develop a 32MW data center in Beacon Falls, Connecticut. The construction firm is looking to develop the facility on a 47-acre site in Gruber Road, Railroad. The residents of Beacon Falls were receptive to the data center and approved the fa...

May 05, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Connecticut

Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. plans to a network of data centers on the Moon

St. Petersburg-based Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. has announced its plan to build a network of data centers on the Moon. The venture capital-funded startup, is operating out of the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub, and in December, intends to send equipment related to the space project throu...

May 04, 2022

United States

Riot Blockchain's 1GW cryptomining farm in Texas

Riot Blockchain Inc. has announced that it is going to build a new cryptomine data center in Texas, on a 265-acre site that will utilize 1GW of energy, with an initial capacity of 400MW. According to reports, if used at full capacity constantly, the facility would consume the same amount of en...

May 03, 2022

Texas

iM Critical To Develop 10MW Data Center Campus in Pittsburgh

iM Critical has announced its plans to develop a modular data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The campus will be developed on a 5.4-acre site. In addition, it will provide 10MW in capacity. According to the company, the first phase of development will offer 3MW, and it will come ...

April 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pittsburgh

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